Felix's Documentation of Teaching at NYUAD

C2-W006
Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 9:00am – 11:30am

1. Introduction Felix
   1. Open calendar, OpenOffice, OpenStudio,
   2. Courses
   3. Other activities: Buddy Bear, FILE,
   4. Old projects,
   5. Research (NTSI Lab, Plastic Recycling Lab)
2. Additional Resources:
   1. Advanced Manufacturing Workshop (Esteban, policies, machines, materials, training (hand tools, laser cutter, CNC (carvey),…)
   2. Engineering Design Studio (Matt, policies, machines, materials, kitchen)
3. About you –> Why are you taking this course? ⇒ Attendance list

1. Syllabus
   1. Structure: Project Colloquium (2:40hr session) + Seminar (1x 1:15hr session), discussion topics)
   2. Learning Outcomes, textbooks, films (movie theatre), rubric, assessment
   3. Homework
2. NYU classes: 1x essay , 2x case study (presentation template), 5x project reports(template))
3. Examples for Bricolage furniture projects (2018) and audio objects (2017):
   1. Prototypes from Design Fundamentals course 2016
   2. My Little Soundbombs (2006), Eyelight, F Light…
   3. Soundmachines (2011)
   4. Why shifting from Audio object to furniture to chairs?
   5. Furniture examples: Bauhaus Light, LOEHR, Sebastian Scherer, Rotor, …
4. Guest talks and course trips (Qasr Al Hosn, overnight field trip, …)
5. Exhibition at the end of Spring-Semester
6. Questions?

1. Project Management Tools (example: Gantt, https://realtimeboard.com/app/dashboard/RealTimeBoard…)
2. Agile Project Management using Kanban/Scrum

1. Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (chapter 1 (p. 9–19), p. 176–177),
2. Develop a Gantt-Chart that reflects the design stages of your project for this semester.
3. Write your friends or family at home and ask them to send you a picture of the chairs in their house. Bring the pictures to next class.